Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away : it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline.

You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.

Sometimes women scare the hell out of me.

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.

If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose -- the gambler is always ruined.

Science is the business of generating testable hypotheses.